The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

by Astha Singhal (Netflix Application Security) As Netflix continues to create entertainment people love, the security team continues to keep our members, partners, and employees secure. We received a report from a researcher that found a service they didn’t believe should be available on the internet.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Each operation performed by the client will be taken as a web request and the result will be a full page reload at the client-side. Performance during a load. HTTP Monitoring.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Accessing underlying software associated with self-managed databases will ultimately help streamline performance while also providing improved levels of safety for any given organization utilizing them. From performance optimization to management, their team of experts assists whenever needed so that you can have a pleasant journey.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. Constrained environments can be due to changing network conditions and device performance limitations.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. million unique visits.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. Spurious reports of "10x worse" performance merit intense scepticism. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. A brownout phase performs a preparatory background transfer of all the key state to a memory region shared with the new version. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. Performance numbers.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. There are a quite a few behavioral outcomes you can look at to determine correlation or impact of a given performance metric.

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Tech News Gather

AUGUST 8, 2022

It is because many applications are available to overcome the challenges we face in our lives. Further, by performing certain advancements, it started giving numerous benefits and is running a venture in eight countries. GoTix – This allows users to book tickets for entertainment shows.

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Tech News Gather

APRIL 18, 2023

Today, mobile apps are no longer just a way of providing information and entertainment but act as an add-on for a company’s brand. In this type of mobile application, the web code is integrated with the native language to create exclusive features and access native APIs that are not available in JavaScript yet.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This ultimately results in more compelling entertainment for Netflix members. We look forward to working alongside Netflix to enable access for more creators to streamlined infrastructure and high-performance compute power on the world’s leading cloud. via direct plug-ins, and is available on multi-cloud platform services.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. In case of corruption in the primary data warehouse, the backup will be generated immediately.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences. Processing The Color Palette.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The book isn’t out until early December, and you should absolute pick up a copy when it’s available. WebPageTest is such a fantastic tool for performance testing. Unsurprisingly, I’m particularly fond of the chapter about emphasizing performance in a responsive project. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Performance. Finding the simplest react alternatives isn’t as straightforward as many assume because it’s exhausting to search out an ideal match whilst considering the stability and ecosystem support together with API performance delivered by ReactJS. With the Angular framework, you can develop apps with high performance.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. At this stage, the machine does not possess any thinking ability, they just perform a set of pre-defined functions. Artificial Narrow Intelligence.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. The catalog of available DB connectors is growing (CockroachDB, Cassandra for example) More Processing patterns such as filter, projection, union, join, etc.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. In pre-war American advertising agencies, the job of a layout artist was simply to place headlines, copy, and images into available space, but that changed after WW2 with an influx of immigrant designers from Europe. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by BLT and Steve Chorney.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. It seemed that LLVM’s inliner was not always respecting __attribute__((always_inline)) and could simply decide it wasn’t going to perform an inline substitution. Recent work. The C standard (§ 6.7.4

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 28, 2020

It also lets me define what hours during the day I’m “available” for meetings so I block off everything before 10am. Then I switched to wrapping up my JavaScript-related performance findings for an audit I’m finishing for another client. It’s never been a problem for anyone. 9:30am-12:00pm. 1:00pm-4:45pm.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Brody saw typography as a medium for commenting ideas and so should be expressive and entertaining. You can still find copies available on eBay. The Story of The Face: The Magazine that Changed Culture’ by Paul Gorman is more readily available, as is a compendium of all twenty issues of FUSE.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices by Dane Avilla The entertainment industry has struggled with COVID-19 restrictions impacting productions around the globe. and performance (how do you limit queries to avoid DDoSing the database by selecting all rows at once?)

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A typical day for a production employee could require using a handful of these applications to entertain our members across the world. This greatly reduces the number of bugs and improves the overall health and performance of every application that uses the design system. This would allow for an easy migration.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. People live within different times: some standard, some commercially available for the right price. Thankfully it’s not.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

By connecting toolchains, automating and visualizing how the key four work items flow across defined product value streams, Tasktop was able to generate flow metrics ( through our new Viz product ) to measure performance from the customer’s perspective and make data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. Tasktopians in action.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. Or would you rather be treated for all of these to a standard of care available in 2020? Streaming entertainment is not a value proposition, it is a utility proposition.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every aspect is personalized With systems driven by machine learning, it is important to measure the overall system-level impact of changes to a model, not just the local impact on the model performance itself. In Machine Learning, offline metrics are often used to measure the performance of model changes on historical data.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Rather than understanding the disruption phenomenon through the lens of change that has already happened, it is worth looking at the change that has not happened but should have given the availability of technology to bring it about. For at least 40 years now, we‘ve been told that technology will revolutionize education.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Today, I am very happy to announce that QuickSight is now generally available in the N. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users. Data is automatically replicated across multiple Availability Zones for redundancy and also backed up to S3 for durability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Growth Advertising At Netflix, we want to entertain the world ! In the absence of true A/B testing, our analyses rely on using the available data to adjust away spurious correlations between the treatment and the outcome metrics. A/B tests are used throughout Netflix to deliver more joy to current and future members.

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